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Oliver Goldsmith
Age: 43 †
Born: 1730
Born: November 10
Died: 1774
Died: April 4
Dramaturge
Essayist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Physician
Physician Writer
Playwright
Poet
Polygraph
Theatrical Producer
Writer
Elphin
County Roscommon
Oliver Goldsmit
Doctor Goldsmith
Oliverio Goldsmith
Oliverus Goldsmith
Olver Goldsmith
Olivier Goldsmith
Dottor Golssmith
Tom Telescope
Solomon Winlove
James Willington
Author of the Vicar of Wakefield
Dr Goldsmith
Inspired Idiot
Talkative
Error
Errors
Ever

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The work of eradicating crimes is not by making punishment familiar, but formidable.
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A kind and gentle heart he had, To comfort friends and foes The naked every day he clad When he put on his clothes.
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As for murmurs, mother, we grumble a little now and then, to be sure but there's no love lost between us.
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I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities contract not only an effeminacy of habit, but of thinking.
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In arguing one should meet serious pleading with humor, and humor with serious pleading.
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Silence gives consent.
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I do not love a man who is zealous for nothing.
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Those who think must govern those that toil.
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Like the tiger, that seldom desists from pursuing man after having once preyed upon human flesh, the reader who has once gratified his appetite with calumny makes ever after the most agreeable feast upon murdered reputations!
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All his faults are such that one loves him still the better for them.
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Ridicule has even been the most powerful enemy of enthusiasm, and properly the only antagonist that can be opposed to it with success.
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Amid thy desert-walks the lapwing flies, And tires their echoes with unvaried cries.
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To make a fine gentleman, several trades are required, but chiefly a barber.
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We seldom speak of the virtue which we have, but much oftener of that which we lack.
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Thus 'tis with all their chief and constant care Is to seem everything but what they are.
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Persecution is a tribute the great must always pay for preeminence.
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Such dainties to them, their health it might hurt It 's like sending them ruffles when wanting a shirt.
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Who pepper'd the highest was surest to please.
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Even children follow'd with endearing wile, And pluck'd his gown, to share the good man's smile.
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The wisdom of the ignorant somewhat resembles the instinct of animals it is diffused in but a very narrow sphere, but within the circle it acts with vigor, uniformity, and success.
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